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Leia: Princess of Alderaan
by Claudia Gray
This is the story of a young Leia, before the events of A New Hope. She is 16, and has to undertake 3 tasks during a year, as part of their tradition.
The main issue with characters that are involved in other stories AFTER the time period the book is placed in, is we know they are safe. As a result, we need some new characters. Problem with this, we are generally expecting those characters to not be around - because they were not in the films etc.
This book suffers that. Keir is a love interest in the story, her first romance. While not being the heart of the story (that is how Leia gets involved in the rebellion), it is a large portion of the book.
Holdo was in the book, and she was also in the Last Jedi. Author should have dropped the Keir character all together and concentrated on the bond between these two characters. Introduce us to Holdo in more depth - who was a really interesting character in Last Jedi and one i would have liked to have known more about. Instead, she is there, but just weird. A missed opportunity.
The rebellion introduction was well done. Her parents don't want her involved, but Leia being stubborn manages to find trouble all by herself. She makes mistakes and learns a lot about politics - fast. It also sets up the scene when she and Tarkin talk to each other on the Death Star in a New Hope (ie, they have spoken to each other before).
This is also aimed at the younger reader. While this is to applauded, it would be nice to have some more adult books to be released in the new Canon. Too many seem to be to the YA market.
The main issue with characters that are involved in other stories AFTER the time period the book is placed in, is we know they are safe. As a result, we need some new characters. Problem with this, we are generally expecting those characters to not be around - because they were not in the films etc.
This book suffers that. Keir is a love interest in the story, her first romance. While not being the heart of the story (that is how Leia gets involved in the rebellion), it is a large portion of the book.
Holdo was in the book, and she was also in the Last Jedi. Author should have dropped the Keir character all together and concentrated on the bond between these two characters. Introduce us to Holdo in more depth - who was a really interesting character in Last Jedi and one i would have liked to have known more about. Instead, she is there, but just weird. A missed opportunity.
The rebellion introduction was well done. Her parents don't want her involved, but Leia being stubborn manages to find trouble all by herself. She makes mistakes and learns a lot about politics - fast. It also sets up the scene when she and Tarkin talk to each other on the Death Star in a New Hope (ie, they have spoken to each other before).
This is also aimed at the younger reader. While this is to applauded, it would be nice to have some more adult books to be released in the new Canon. Too many seem to be to the YA market.